The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-08-11
GENERAL NEWS.
Doings Throughout the World and
the Nation.


the Nation.
Items Taken From the Latest TeIe-
graphic Reports on Subjects
Of Interest. 49,,
Blaine has gone to Cork.
The Volunteer, the new yacht to CON-
pete for the America cup is proving her
self wonder.
Violent shocks of earthquake have been
felt at Loghouat, Algeria. A number Of
houses were destroyed.
Pardow Marley, the ''Union spy of the
Shenandoah" died at bis home at Foster
Brook last week; aged G..
There were four new cases of cholera
and four deaths on the Isle of Malta, in
the Mediterranean sea, in one day last
week.
M. Grevy, president of France, has as
a gift from the king Of Abyssinia two lov~
ing lions and four butfaloes with silken
coats.
The sixth attempt Of an incendiary to
burn the New York Zeitung building was
made last week The fire was extinguish-
ed with small loss.
At Edgefcld, S. c., last week, the Cul-
breth lynchers we're acquitted and the
cases against the remaining thirty two
men were not pressed.
At Lake Manawa, near Council Bluffs,
Iowa, last Thursday, pleasure steamer,
with a party OF bathers on board capsized
-Four persons are missing.
The Department of Fisheries has re-
ceived advices of the detention last Fri
day of the United States schooner J. r.
G. Perkins for shipping at Port Souris.
Jerry Fagels, who murdered Samuel
Kohn, for which he was to have been
hanged at St. Louis tomorrow, was found
dead in bis cell last Tuesday morning,
having committed suicide.
Rain fell heavily at Toronto, Canada,
last Thursday for the first time. In five
weeks not drop of rain had fallen, and
crops are said to be seriously injured by
the long continued drorth.
A s1OO,COC fire early last Monday
morning in the business center of Salt
Lake burned out the Grand Army Hall
and DESTROYED a valuable oil painting of
General U. S. Grant.
According to official reports there were
1O,236 deaths from cholera in Chill dur
ing the period from January to June of
this year, and the government expended
$1,OO7, ,02O in fighting the epidemic.
The jury in the case of the Chicago
boodlers rendered verdict of guilty last
Friday. Seven of the eleven defendants
got two years in the penitentiary and the
other four we're fined 1000 each.
The Executive Committee of the Cen
tral Farmers Institute, Of Canada, de-
clares itself strongly in favor of unrestrict-
ed reciprocity with the United States,
and has decided to push the work Of Or
ganization throughout the provinces.
The statement prepared at the treasury
department shows the cost o. silver
bullion purchased by the treasury for the
coinage of silver dollars during July to
be 81 ,2E43, ,000, making a total to date of
S6,612,25o.
Leroy D. Brown, late president of pub
lie instruction of Ohio, has been elected
president Of the state university of Neva-
da, at salary of $500 a year and travel
ing expenses. He is 80 years old and a
native of Ohio.
Judge Miller, of the United States su-
preme court, last week. granted writ OF
error in the case of Hugh N. Brooks, alias
Maxwell, murderer of Preller. This stays
the proceedings until the supreme court
meets in October
A hard-fought battle Of twenty-five
rounds with skin gloves took place near
Council Bluffs, Iowa, last week between
Sid Clark, of New York, and Dan Hart,
California. Hart was knocked out in the
twenty-second round.
Gibson, the ex-premier Of the Hawaiian
Kingdom is in San Francisco, having fled
from the Islands. The new premier
Green says the bonds of the loan recently
negotiated in England by the old minis
try are worthless and may be repudiated.
Last Friday afternoon four young sons
of the King of Siam, who accompanied
the Prince Devawinzi to this country